Yahoo Joins OpenSocial

It's official. After much speculation, Yahoo has officially joined Google's OpenSocial project. OpenSocial was created to help unite the social Web by providing a common mechanism for developers to create apps that will work across many different networks (more about OpenSocial here.) MySpace and orkut have already joined and with the addition of Yahoo, a whole new crop of developers will be able to begin developing new applications.

Along with the announcement comes OpenSocial.org, the main documentation hub and source of information about all things OpenSocial.